On Failed Totalitarianism

On Failed Totalitarianism

George Orwell’s 1984 was first published in 1949. By then many of its major themes had been anticipated, both in conservative litera- ture and in the internal debates of the demo- cratic left (and in such earlier antiutopian novels as Zamiatin’s We and Huxley’s Brave New World).


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